RECENT NEWS

Bryan Hill, an Authorising Engineer (Water) for clients across Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the North of England, with a wealth of professional knowledge and experience in water systems, and over 10 years’ experience in Legionellosis and water hygiene risk management, has joined the Water Hygiene Centre.

Compass Group UK & Ireland says it is ‘the first company in the industry looking to tackle the shortage in female chefs’ – through the launch of its ‘Women in Food’ Programme – and has committed to have female chefs form 50% of its workforce by 2020

Screwfix – the multi-channel supplier of trade tools, accessories, and hardware – has launched a range of antimicrobial copper light switches and sockets from award-winning British manufacturer Varilight, ‘making this innovative technology available over the counter, or deliverable within 24 hours, for the first time’.

A new Code of Practice for surface water source heat pumps has been launched by CIBSE, in a bid to help the UK meet targets to reduce its carbon emissions.

Olympus Medical has partnered with one of London’s busiest teaching hospitals, King’s College Hospital in Denmark Hill, to deliver what is reportedly Britain’s largest 3D surgical endoscopy installation.

Medical Air Ltd has launched a brand new website, giving visitors more information than ever before about Medical Air Technology (MAT), Medical Air Technology Facilities Management (MAT FM), and the wide range of products and services the solution-driven medical engineering specialist has to offer.

South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust has appointed the GRAHAMBAM Healthcare Partnership, a joint venture between GRAHAM Construction and BAM, to deliver Ulster Hospital’s new £95 million Acute Services Block – currently Ireland’s largest live healthcare project.

Good observation while maintaining privacy and dignity, anti-ligature features, and the ability to incorporate artwork, were among the key factors in the recent specification of Vistamatic vison panels incorporating a different flower for each bedroom for the newly refurbished Suite 3 Dementia Ward at Tonna Hospital in Neath, South Wales.

With the NHS in England recently committing to ‘the biggest transformation of mental healthcare across the NHS in a generation’, this month sees the Design in Mental Health 2016 conference, exhibition, and dinner take place at the National Conference Centre (formerly known as the National Motorcycle Museum) in Solihull.

Construction and engineering specialist, MTX Contracts, moved in late March to new premises at Brooke Court in Handforth, Cheshire, following 30 years at its previous site in High Lane, Stockport.

edie Live 2016 – formerly known as Sustainability Live – which claims to be the UK’s largest exhibition and conference dedicated to sustainability, returns to the NEC, Birmingham this month.

Brandon Medical has contributed to the installation of patient entertainment units in the Yorkshire Regional Spinal Injuries Unit at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield.

Karl Storz says its ‘peerless’ OR1 NEO integrated theatre system now has ‘a new thoroughbred stablemate to meet the demand for light, fast and reliable IP-based switching and routing of surgical images using existing structured cabling’.

Indigo, the specialist in hospital parking management, will be showcasing its latest developments in hospital car parking at the Hospital Innovations event, which takes place at Olympia London from 26-27 April this year.

The event aims to bring together key decision-makers in hospital management responsible for the delivery of patient services across the UK.

With the company’s launch of the Polaris 600 operating theatre light, for the first time ever a Dräger light can now be operated both via touch operation by non-sterile personnel, and by the surgeon.

David Bailey Furniture Systems has recently won the contract for the refurbishment of the International Private Patient Suite at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in London.

Cobweb IS has introduced ‘a new innovation in electrical compliance management’.

On January 29, Medical Air Technology (MAT) handed over two newly refurbished operating theatres at the George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton, on time and within budget.

Applications are now open for Eastwood Park’s three new degree programmes, which can be gained while still working – the Foundation Degree in Hospital Engineering (incorporating multi-engineering disciplines: decontamination; medical gases; HVAC; water hygiene; fire; electrical; estates), the Foundation Degree in Medical Equipment Technologies, and the BSc(Hons) Management of Healthcare Engineering Technologies & Facilities.

Mitie’s pest control business is offering a new service combining drone inspection with hawk control to reduce urban seagull infestation.